- Date
- February 21, 1992, 17:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place
- Alpena, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1405KLuscombe 8A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920221004039A
- Case key
- 15401
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point. Related factors are his misjudged approach and failure to take remedial action.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The student pilot/airplane owner reported the airplane was about 20 feet above the ground on final approach when it suddenly descended into hard packed snow short of the runway. The airplane touched down approximately 100 feet from the approach end of the landing runway, 'rapidly decelerated and flipped over on its back.' The student pilot reported a total flight time of 276 hours, all in the accident aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1405K
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 413
- Airframe hours
- 2,993
- Engine
- Continental A65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ableidinger, Michael A
- Registered owner
- Ableidinger, Michael A
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 26, 1991 · 49 hours before
- Airport
- APN · Alpena, runway 7, 5,030 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 276 total · 276 in this make and model · 253 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APN, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.